WO 171/607 - 6 Guards Tank Brigade - July 1944

Instructions regarding War Diaries and Intelligence Summaries are contained in F.S. Regs., Vol. 1. and the Staff Manual respectively Title pages will be prepared in manuscript.	WAR DIARY or INTELLIGENCE SUMMARY	Army Form C.2118
	WAR DIARY or INTELLIGENCE SUMMARY	Unit: 6th Guards Tank Brigade
Month and Year: July 1944	(Erase heading not required).	Commanding Officer: Brigadier G.L. Verney, M.V.O.

Place	Date	Hour	Summary	Reference
	28		Orders received at 1800 hrs to be at 1 hrs notice to move to the vicinity BALLEROY (8869) to come under Comd 15 (S) Div. The Bde moved out at 2100 hrs by the following route BAYEUX by-pass – LA TUILERIE (7273) – to D.P. at 693699. Bde H.Q. was established at 721669. The rds from the D.P. were very congested and it was a pitch dark night. As a result of this the Bde were not conc in the area around Bde H.Q. until 0600 hrs. At about 0230 hrs enemy med guns put down a few rds of gunfire on a med gun area about half a mile from our location. The Bde Comd attended a conference at 15 (S) Div H.Q. at 1800 hrs at 698690. The Div Comd outlined the general plan for the attack in which we were to support 15 (S) Div. This attack had been arranged at very short notice to exploit the American successes on our right (B.B.C. news today said they had reached AVRANCHES). 11 Armd Div, and 15 (S) Div of 8 Corps were on the right. 43 Div and 50 Div of 30 Corps were on our left. At 1700 hrs Bde H.Q. moved to 706824, alongside 227 Bde of 15 (S) Div where a co-ordinated conference was held at 1715 hrs. Air photos and one over twenty five thousand Defence Overprints were issued on a scale of about 20 per Bn of each. The Bde are now 8 Corps Tps.

Source: Jeroen Koppes, TracesOfWar.com, transcribing: Hans Houterman.

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